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About

Hi, I’m Katharina,

a career changer into Cloud & DevOps with a background in art, music, production and social work.

Over the last year and a half I’ve been:

completing my AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) on Feb 2nd 2026
working on a simple Cloud-Music-Project to further develop my skills post studies (still W.I.P.)
contributing to a self-organized study group for daily support, sharing of knowledge & resources post studies
learning and working hands-on with AWS, Linux basics, containerized services and CI/CD
completing a 14-month full-time Software Engineering program with a focus on Cloud (Masterschool), certificate received in Nov. 2025
doing a 320-hours full-time DevOps/Cloud internship (WeBeet) with real-world infrastructure and observability tasks for a mobile housing app
bringing in experience from creative projects, organizing work, documentation and support-focused roles

Tech Projects

DevOps / Cloud Intern (320 hours, full-time), Sep. - Nov. 2025

Worked with Docker-based services in a team environment
Designed and set up an observability stack:
- Metrics with Prometheus
- Dashboards with Grafana
- Logging with Loki
Troubleshot containerized services and runtime issues
Collaborated via GitHub:
- GitHub Issues for task tracking
- GitHub Projects (Kanban board)
- Pull Requests with mandatory reviews
Actively documented decisions, progress and changes directly in Issues and PRs to keep history transparent
CI/CD exposure via GitHub Actions:
- Read and adjusted existing YAML workflows
- Participated in pipeline discussions and debugging
Basic Infrastructure-as-Code exposure (Terraform concepts, reading and adapting configs)

Final project reviewed and approved by my mentor as part of the 6-months Cloud track

🍯 boot.dev Kubernetes course as self-study
🌸 Cloud Music Diary (W.I.P.) as an after-studies project
- personal cloud project combining music & cloud engineering
- GitHub Actions
- documentation-first approach
- link to project
🐝 boot.dev CI/CD course as part of the internship
- pipelines, automation concepts, YAML-based workflows
- link to lab outcome
🌷 Git & GitHub workflows as part of the internship
- branches, pull requests, reviews, team collaboration
🌱 AWS networking labs for private learning
- VPCs, subnets, routing basics, security groups

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02), Feb. 2nd 2026, Certification Badge here

AWS: EC2, RDS, IAM, VPC, subnets, security groups
Docker & Docker Compose: service-based setups
CI/CD fundamentals:
- GitHub Actions (reading, modifying, collaborating on pipelines)
- YAML-based workflows
Linux fundamentals:
- CLI, SSH, logs, processes, environment variables
Infrastructure as Code (Basics):
- Terraform concepts
- using and adapting templates

Containerized applications and services
Kubernetes concepts (learning in progress):
- pods, services, deployments (labs & coursework)
- see “Learning Labs”

Artist & Music Video Director
Planning, organizing and executing shoots, working hands-on with audio and video equipment, editing in DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere, managing timelines and budgets.
Musician
Production and composition of music, studio setup, collaboration with other artists, performance on stage, organizing events, managing logistics and costs.
Personal Assistance & Care Work
High responsibility, clear communication, empathy, reliability, and structured support in stressful environments. 24/7 work-shift experience, first-aid courses. Worked with elderly and persons with disabilities.

☀️ If you’re curious about my artistic side:

2026